Kevin Douglas Grant

Kevin Douglas Grant is The GroundTruth Project’s Co-founder and Chief Content Officer, as well as Vice President of Report for America. Previously Senior Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others. He holds an M.A. in Online Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding Executive Editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is the former Operations Director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com. He is currently based in Washington, D.C. and is pursuing a Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter, while also working on a project about religious leaders worldwide as a journalism fellow at USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

Trump’s election delay musings are part of anti-democratic playbook

WASHINGTON — The president doesn’t have legal authority to delay or cancel an election. But that won’t stop...

America Astray: Police target journalists covering civil unrest

WASHINGTON — America wakes up this morning with cities still smoldering after a weekend of violent protest, in...

Special Reports

In a global COVID-19 crisis, flashes of authoritarian instinct

WASHINGTON — Fear and chaos are the soil in which authoritarianism grows best, and we have entered a...

Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook – Overview

Seven steps by populists worldwide to undermine the democracies that elected them By Kevin Douglas Grant|October 17, 2019|@kevindgrant...

The trauma of white supremacist violence, from Charlottesville to El Paso

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Messages of hope and resistance are etched in multi-colored chalk along the red brick walls of...

Reflecting on the role of journalism in society

NEW YORK — Grappling with journalism’s role in a society under duress is one of the most difficult things...

New U.S. sanctions on Cuba would slam shut diplomatic window

WASHINGTON — National Security Advisor John Bolton announced more steps to turn back the clock on U.S.-Cuba relations...

Cuba’s constitutional referendum awakens religious groups to their own power

HAVANA — From the jubilant inauguration of the first new Catholic church in 60 years in the western...

The future of local news is in communities

MIAMI — The Knight Foundation will commit $300 million to strengthen local news over the next five years as...

Voting rights in Georgia remain in doubt

Republican Brian Kemp didn’t resign his position as secretary of state until two days after the election in...

Wisconsin legislature limits successors’ power in ‘assault on democratic norm’

At a closed-door “extraordinary session” held overnight in the Wisconsin legislature, Republican senators voted to strip power from...

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